RC21 CONFERENCE 2013
Resourceful cities
Berlin (Germany), 29-31 August 2013
Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Social Science, Dept. for Urban and Regional Sociology
07. New urban centralities: towards a global urban studies
Organizer: Tony Roshan Samara (a), Xuefei Ren (b) (a: George Mason University, b: Michigan State University)
Session 07.1 Contested development in the global south
Nathan Marom (UC-Berkeley)
Global urban knowledge, planning and inequality: Between the World Bank and global South cities
Federico Pérez (Harvard University)
Re-centering the City: Local Genealogies of Urban Redevelopment in Bogotá, Colombia
Liza Weinstein (Northeastern University)
The Entrenched City: Institutional Fragmentations and the Right to Stay Put
Aditya Mohanty (Central University of Bihar)
Towards a Deleuzian Critique of Civil Society in Neo-liberal Delhi
Susan S. Fainstein (a), Norman Fainstein (b) (a: Harvard University, b: Connecticut College)
Public Housing in Hong Kong and Singapore
David Sadoway, Govind Gopakumar (Concordia University)
Critical urban infrastructure(s): applying critical methods in an integrated analysis of urban decongestion assemblages in India
Session 07.2 New urban centralities
Michael Timberlake (a), David A. Smith (b) (a: University of Utah, b: UC-Davis)
Exploring World Urban Networks: Connections, Centralities and Changing Geographies
Roger Keil (York University)
Defying peripherality: Making new centres of meaning in post-suburbia
J. Miguel Kanai (University of Miami)
The Building of Global Manaus and Production of New Urban Peripheries in Amazonia
Martin Murray (University of Michigan)
Cities of the South, Spatial reconfigurations: Sondo, Tatu City, and Buenos Aires
Johanna Hoerning (Goethe-University/Frankfurt)
Spatial Configuration, Political Conception, and Social Production of Centralities
Roger Keil (York University, Toronto)
Revisiting Southern cities as centers of accumulation: evidence from urban property development and capitalist trans/formation in Manila and Ho Chi Minh City
Distributed:
Joel Stillerman (a), Jennifer Parker Talwar (b), Rodrigo Salcedo (c) (a: Grand Valley State, b: Penn State University, c: Universidada Catolica del Maule)
Glocalizing Malls in the Global South: Shopping Centers, Cities, and Consumers in Chile, Turkey, and India
Shan He (University of West Australia)
A Density Challenge: Hangzhou's Approach of New Town Oriented at High-Speed Rail
Tammy Wong (ETH Center for Global Environmental Sustainability)
An “unsettling” centrality: the struggles of Wedding Card street and Queen’s Pier in Hong Kong
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